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The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back
Deconstructing American sayings is admittedly one of my favorite past times. Our Americanized English offers some very colorful sayings which give our dialect a lot of historically referenced…
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Valuing Employees
How do you best tell an employee that they have value? As a manager that may be the single most important question you can ask, but fortunately the…
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Employee Morale: It’s not your problem
Many managers think that low employee morale is a problem, or even worse they think it’s their problem. That’s NOT just wrong thinking, it is wrong leadership. Low…
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Hopethetical
Distilled down to its glorious pudding-skin equivalent, a manager’s singular job is to focus his employees on the task at hand. Although illegal now, adderall and methamphetamine were commonly…
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Employee Development: A Hammer and Chisel
Michelangelo said “The sculpture is already complete within the marble. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” As a manager, you are…
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Managerial Stacking
Where can you find the best-of-the-best in America today? In the ivory towers of Corporate America? Not anymore. They’re at the gym, of course. And at the gym,…
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